A group of miners stands in front of the Belcher Mine near Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado. Three more men stand at the top of the mine. A group of pack burros stands on the ridge in the right midground.

Fireman's Hall on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, is a two story frame building featuring a gable roof with flat side extensions, a belfry, and a plate glass ground floor front with transoms. Lettering on the three front windows reads...

Buckets scoop soil from the Middle Fork South Platte River bed to be processed on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado. Shows iron beam framework, pulleys, and cables.

The Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, Volunteer Fire Department poses amid a crowd of onlookers. They wear uniforms, including United States Cavalry hats and jackets, and carry horns, fire buckets, and a nozzle. A section of firehose...

On Main Street in Canon City, Colorado, Texas wagons with teams of horses in harness and uncovered bows are loaded with full gunny sacks and hay. Men pose among them and under the covered stoop of a brick store with a sign reading: "McGee & Mack."...

This view of businesses on the east side of Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado includes several two story false front wooden structures with bracketed cornices, large store front windows and panel kickplates, and striped awnings. One small...

Men in suits supervise workmen as they install a water pipeline for Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The pipeline is made of wooden staves and reinforced with metal bands (probably steel). One workman balances a wooden plank on his shoulder while...

Close up view of a mine shaft near Buena Vista (Chaffee County), Colorado. Shows a winch or windlass, a wheelbarrow, pickaxes and a shovel near a mine shaft in the ground. Buckets and ropes are beside trees.

Photograph of the interior of a room containing the Swift and Company product containers located in the Globeville neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Pictured are several sets of cases holding metal buckets used by the company to hold and package...

Jesse Nusbaum, far right, stands with his excavation team, including his stepson Deric, third from left, at their camp above Step House in Mesa Verde National Park. Standing at Deric's left is the park's future superintendent Marshall Finnan. Four...

A man smokes a pipe as he sits next to a contraption of some kind, possibly a smelter or liquor still, in (probably) the Bohannon Placer District in Lemhi County, Idaho. Hoses come from a wooden barrel and center on what is perhaps a forge or...

Large wood buckets stand in the foreground in this interior view of the Buell Consolidated Gold Mining & Milling Company in Mountain City on the outskirts of Central City, a large mining community in Gilpin County, Colorado.

Group portrait of four Colorado School of Mines students with their survey transit compass on a tripod with a several found artefacts including: coffee pot, "Tomato Catsup" can, buckets, and a tub which one young man sits in, in Golden, Jefferson...

A large group of miners pose near the mouth of the Primrose Mine in Primrose (Huerfano County), Colorado. The miners wear work clothes including: overalls, pants, suspenders, and coats. Most of the men wear hats with Johnny Lamps and hold picks in...

Interior view of a grocery store, Lyons, Colorado, operated by Major Small, far left, next to him is a small boy, Harry St. Clair, and other men unidentified. They pose a dog on a chair with a hat on its head and a pipe in its mouth. Merchandise...

A woman, men, and children pose by the Decker Hotel, Sierra Blanco, possibly Huerfano County, Colorado; one hoists a whiskey jug, others carry lunch buckets and drinking cups; hats include a bowler and a sombrero.

Crowd gathers near Midland Terminal Railway Station constructed in 1896, Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; scene includes miners with lunch buckets, horse-drawn carriage and riders, and group of men near the depot; street consists of...

Wagon boss, Stan (Stanford) Sherman, sits with his back resting on camp supplies and writes a letter; another man reaches for food [?] inside a wooden box, at their two day camp, Colorado. Their wagon is equipped with rope; a large sheet of canvas...

Ornate wallpaper finishes the interior of this feed store in Boulder, Colorado. Full burlap sacks are piled in back and to the sides; a man wheels one on a handtruck. Wire-handled, wooden buckets are by a counter; shelves are filled with boxes,...

An elderly Hispanic American man, probably Mr. Atencio, eats his lunch in his home in Chama (Costilla County), Colorado. he sits at table in front of a plate of beans and holds a spoon. He wears a denim shirt. His hat, an enamel cup, and a tortilla...

Hardwood shelves of crockery and tins line interior walls of this mercantile in Boulder, Colorado. Stacked, wood tables are crowded with canning jars, dinnerware, and cooking utensils. Tin buckets and lamps hang from the ceiling; crates in the...

Buckets, birdcages, and a hammock hang from the ceiling of this mercantile in Boulder, Colorado. Wall shelves are filled with lamps and china; tables are stacked with dinnerware. A.S. Brown sits on a cast iron stove, Charles Rittmaster wears a...